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Chang-Yu Chang 張昌祐
My research interest lies in the intersection of systems biology and microbial community ecology and evolution. I combine theory and experiment to study how microbial communites assemble and evovle.
Education
Ph.D. Candidate, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
Yale University
New Haven, CT
now - 2017
- Thesis: Engineering emergent properties of microbial communities
- Advisor: Dr. Alvaro Sanchez
B.S., Life Science
National Taiwan University
Taipei, Taiwan
2015 - 2011
- Math and computational courses oriented
- Presidential and Dean’s Award (ranking top 5% in the class)
Selected Publications
Engineering complex communities by directed evolution (2021). Nature Ecology & Evolution
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41559-021-01457-5
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2021
- Chang-Yu Chang*, Jean C C Vila*, Madeline Bender, Richard Li, Madeleine C Mankowski, Molly Bassette, Julia Borden, Stefan Golfier, Paul Gerald L Sanchez, Rachel Waymack, Xinwen Zhu, Juan Diaz-Colunga, Sylvie Estrela, Maria Rebolleda-Gomez, Alvaro Sanchez
- * contributed equally.
- Coauthors include students from courses PBoC2019 and E&EB 729
Directed Evolution of Microbial Communities (2021). Annu. Rev. Biophys.
https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev-biophys-101220-072829
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2021
- Alvaro Sanchez, Jean C C Vila, Chang-Yu Chang, Juan Diaz-Colunga, Sylvie Estrela, Maria Rebolleda-Gomez
Artificially selecting bacterial communities using propagule strategies (2020). Evolution
https://doi.org/10.1111/evo.14092
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2020
- Chang-Yu Chang*, Melisa L Osborne*, Djordje Bajic, Alvaro Sanchez.
- * contributed equally.
Fellowship
Government Fellowship for Oversea Study
Taiwan Ministry of Education
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2020 - 2017
- $126,000
References
Dr. Maria Rebolleda-Gomez
Ph.D. lab colleague
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- Assistant Professor, University of California, Irvine
Dr. Sheng-Feng Shen
M.S. advisor
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- Research Fellow (Professor), Academia Sinica in Taiwan